Horace Lyman (November 16, 1815 – March 31, 1887) was a reverend and professor of mathematics in the U.S. state of Oregon.[1]

Horace Lyman
BornNovember 16, 1815
DiedMarch 31, 1887 (1887-04-01) (aged 71)
Occupation(s)Reverend, professor
FamilyHorace Sumner Lyman (son)

He was born in Massachusetts, and came to Oregon by way of New York and Cape Horn in October 1848.[2] He married Mary Dennison the next month.[2] He established a school in Portland in 1849,[3] and helped establish the Hillsboro School District in Hillsboro in 1851. He was a founder of Portland's First Congregational Church in June 1851.[2] He was founding secretary of LaCreole Academic Institutue near Dallas, Oregon in 1856.[4]

Lyman served as Hillsboro's first commissioner, and later its school superintendent.[5] He later taught math at Pacific University in Forest Grove, where he died in 1887.[6]

His son, Horace Sumner Lyman, was a prominent journalist, historian, and educator.[7]

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  1. ^ "Biography of Prof. Horace Lyman – Access Genealogy". accessgenealogy.com. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  2. ^ a b c "Lyman, Reverend Horace - OHS Digital Collections". digitalcollections.ohs.org. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  3. ^ Cartwright, Charlotte M. (1903). "Glimpses of Early Days in Oregon" . Oregon Historical Quarterly. 4.
  4. ^ Horner, John (1919). Oregon: Her history, her great men, her literature . p. 165.
  5. ^ Philpott, Betty (October 19, 1976). "Schools and Churches: Hillsboro school began in one-room log cabin in 1854". The Hillsboro Argus. pp. 10–11.
  6. ^ "Lyman, Reverend Horace - OHS Digital Collections". digitalcollections.ohs.org. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Horace S. Lyman (obituary)". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 6. 1905.
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